Hi, > 1) In the case that we've borrowed code from another Apache 2.0 licensed > project, the licensing howto[1] says that there is no need to modify > LICENSE unless it transitively has dependencies with such a requirement.
That is the current policy yes so there is no need to list them. > Is this true even if the original dependency carries a copyright? Yes. The copyright should be in a NOTICE file and if that exists need it needs be be added to your NOTICE file. [1] BTW bootstrap in now MIT not Apache so you may want to double check the version/license you are using. > For example, we bundle Twitter's Bootstrap library and currently have > attribution in our > LICENSE file[2] indicating the copyright (even though it's also at the top > of the relevant files). Not necessary? It’s not required under current policy, but there’s no harm in adding it. > 2) In other cases we've bundled MIT or BSD-licensed source. The license > says that redistributions must retain the text of the license. Is it > sufficient that that text be only in the source code, or should we also > duplicate it into LICENSE.txt as we've done for code derived from > AsyncHBase? [3] You should add the full text or better still a pointer to it. [2] > 3) We have many thirdparty dependencies which are not "bundled" in the > source release. Instead, our build process has a script which downloads > them from the internet, unpacks, and compiles them. So, despite not being > part of the artifact itself, they are required components for the build > (and in most cases become static-linked into the binary). We currently list > all of these dependencies and their licenses in LICENSE.txt. Is this > necessary, or should we move these into a separate file? Only items bundled should be mentioned in LICENSE/NOTICE. [3] Thanks, Justin 1. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#alv2-dep 2. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#permissive-deps 3. http://www.apache.org/dev/licensing-howto.html#guiding-principle --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: general-unsubscr...@incubator.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: general-h...@incubator.apache.org
